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The Oregon UAS FutureFarm will host the first Ag Drone Rodeo in Pendleton, Oregon on August 18 -19, where leading technological companies will demonstrate unmanned aircraft systems, featuring advanced crop sensors and ...

Dutch engineering company Kiremko will be the main supplier and integrator of a complete new French fries process and packaging line for Linkage Farm Frites in China. Together with its strategic partners, Kiremko is ...

The United Fresh Produce Association will present its 2016 FreshTech Achievement Award to David Offerdahl, director of ag engineering, at Taylor Farms for his outstanding technical achievements to advance the fresh produce industry. David Offerdahl, ...

Growing up in Uruguay — a country with four cows per every person — Virginia Pravia was immersed in the agriculture industry at an early age. During summers and holidays, Pravia watched as her family ...

Mechanized agriculture is the process of using agricultural machinery to mechanize work, greatly increasing productivity. In modern times, powered machinery has replaced many jobs formerly carried out by manual labor, or by ...

Anyone who has ever wondered why some tomatoes can taste so bland might be interested in the work of two Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists in Fort Pierce, Florida. They are taking two different approaches ...

 Tong Engineering is set to introduce a new Cleaner Loader crop transfer machine to its latest range of vegetable handling equipment, to bring farmers and growers an in-field crop cleaning and loading ...

As a global leader in the production of dehydrated potatoes, the Emsland Group is supporting the market growth for high quality potato flakes. We offer ingredients for trends such as clean label, ...

With reports again highlighting a concerning lack of knowledge amongst young adults and the origin of the food they eat, educating the next generation remains an important focus. As popular primary school ...

They grow in some of the world’s most inhospitable conditions. Unlike their pampered domesticated relatives in order to survive they’ve needed to adapt on their own to high temperatures, high saline conditions, ...

According to the GAIN report "Poland - Fresh Potatoes and Products. Annual 2015"- published on November 27, 2015 - the 2015 Potato production in Poland dropped 13% compared to last year to ...

The FAO Food Price Index averaged 156.7 points in November2015, down 2.6 points (1.6 percent) from its revised October average. Except for sugar prices, which increased for the third consecutive month, all ...

The joboto or blind Hen has been a problem that has directly affected the production costs and yields in the vegetable harvest of Zarcero producers for many years, especially in the lower ...

In October JetBlue Airways (NASDAQ: JBLU), New York's Hometown Airline™ and TERRA® Real Vegetable Chips, part of The Hain Celestial Group, Inc., revealed the T5 Farm -- a blue potato farm and ...

Precision agriculture is already the norm for many arable farms. Modern technological advancements like guidance systems and positioning technology are helping us get the most out of the land. New methods for ...

The consortium of potato producers (Conpapa), which associates 300 farmers directly and another 2 thousand in seven cantons of the province, inaugurated days ago its plant for cleaning and sorting tubers in ...

The entire potato industry of Great Britain gathered at Harrogate International Centre, North Yorkshire 12 and 13 November for BP2015, the key industry event of the year. AHDB Potatoes’ Strategy Director Rob ...

In a month and a half, the harvest of 1,950 hectares of potatoes, with national seed, in the municipalities of Andrés Eloy Blanco (Sanare), Anzoátegui, Morán and Guarico in Lara state will ...

It’s all about quality and efficiency of production so all potato processors know that their end user wants a good tuber with little foreign matter. And this is where a good de-stoner ...

Natural Blend Vegetable Dehydration, LLC held its opening on September 30th, manufacturing facility in Pitt County, North Carolina.  The company will dehydrate sweet potatoes to be used in various pet food products for the ...

Inner Mongolia Linkage Potato Co., Ltd and Farm Frites have signed an agreement to establish a joint venture in Wudan Town, Chifeng City in Inner Mongolia in China. The joint venture will ...

Potato starch manufacturer AVEBE has announced the company will start this year's starch production on August 26. That is a week later than originally scheduled. The cold and wet spring, followed by ...

Officials from Oregon and Washington are working on an upcoming joint trade mission to expand export opportunities for Northwest potatoes. “We are conducting a trade mission to the Philippines and Vietnam with ...

Furious potato growers are going head to head with supermarkets and restaurants in a campaign to reclaim the "British New Potato". The Potato Council is acting after a growing number of complaints ...

In the aftermath of last year’s difficult growing and harvesting season, almost one in ten of Britain’s potato growers decided to call it a day, but, according to Rob Clayton of the ...